we are doing this the dumb way. just trade conley then i'm sure we'll be able to keep all of our money/picks. or had we negotiated our deal with Bojan/Ingles a bit smarter as opposed to the deal we are giving them that pays them more as they get older......
I'm not going to begrudge not squeezing JC and Favs in order to save a 2027 2nd-round pick if it means we set the clock back on the repeater tax. I'd rather keep them happy. Those picks are easy enough to get, if needed.
If we're doing this to avoid the luxury tax this year, it makes all kind of sense. That way we don't start the repeater clock at least for another year, which can turn into very serious money down the line.
Yeah we are just running up a tab though... it’s like one credit card ain’t so bad... 5 or 6 though and it’s starts to get bad.
We’ve been moaning about DL, but some of this stuff is starting to look more and more like it’s the machinations of new ownership.
Luxury tax has repeater actions. It's smart to avoid the tax when you can so you dont start that clock. Getting out of the tax now might save you tens of millions down the line if you pay the tax later.
Running up a tab is often needed for teams that feel like they're contenders (whether you feel like we're contenders, or whether we've run up the tab on the right stuff is a separate issue, of course). At least we're not where the Clips and Lakers are in terms of future assets.
i understand that. but there are much better ways to do this than what we just did. teams pays millions of dollars for second rounders on draft night. who is to say the picks we just gave away won't worth tens of millions of $ on its own?
Could be. I think you're right in the sense that there's not a single person we can point to for moves like this, though we always want to put someone's name on it.
